Thursday, April 20, 2017

This is found in Legacy: Daughter of Utah Pioneers Newsletter, Winter 2008

1. Speak to people. There is nothing so nice as a cheerful word of greeting.
2. Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown, and only 14 to smile.
3. Call people by name. The sweetest music to anyone's ears is the sound of his or her own name.
4. Be friendly. If you would have friends, you need to be one.
5. Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do is a genuine pleasure.
6. Be genuinely interested. People want to know that you care about what they have to say.
7. Be generous with praise. Affirmation is uplifting to a person. Be cautious with you criticisms.
8. Be considerate. Feelings are hurt rather easily. Be aware of that fact and don't be rude--even if you disagree.
9. Give service. It's more fun to give than to receive. You'll make somebody's day.
10. Add to these a sense of humor, a big dose of patience and a dash of humility, and you will be rewarded many fold.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

4. Big Water Spring – Railroad Valley

The largest geothermal hot spring in Nevada, Big Water Spring offers beautifully clear water of about 91-93 degrees. The sacred waters of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe are a designated critical habitat of Railroad Valley Spring Fish, but the spring remains open to the public for enjoyment. There’s a stairway with handrails leading into the spring, which is naturally heated by the earth.

This is from a Nevada Tourist resource. I spent many many days in this pool of water. It was never cold. It offered a steady flow of warm water from which a catfish farm enterprise developed. However it provided many enjoyable hours. I would help youth recreation activities in the summer, and making it to the pond was an almost daily experience during the summer.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

When we lived on the farm in Othello, Me and my brothers would get our hair cut at a family friend. the friend had a stepping stool you could sit on that brought you up much higher than a chair, and he would cut our hair.
Of course when we moved away from the farm, my Dad cut our hair. For many years we always received crew cuts, hair shaved right off. I remember some older kid on the bus liked to feel my head as he thought it felt good. But it was not fun going through life with only on option for a hair cut, buzzed all the way off, not even leaving a little on top.
From their my father graduated to the "Miracle Barber." You remember, "This message is not for barbers, this message is not for barbers." This was a device into which you put a razor blade. then the hair cutter could just slide the device across someone's hair, and it would cut the hair to the desired length. It failed miserable. There was no way to determining how long the hair would be at the end of the thing, and it always dragged, more pulling the hair out rather than cutting it off.
From there we graduated to the cheap barber in Smithfield, yes it was worth the drive (fifteen miles form Hyrum.) Here we received a professional haircut, but for some reason the Smithfield barber didn't charge very much.
And then there was visits to Uncle Marvin. If our visiting Grandmas coincided with a need for a haircut, Uncle Marvin would give them to us for free. Again his cut was professional, and it always included a back massage.

I can't say that I was the fastest swimmer, but I could go for long distances. I had several resting strokes down. This included the side stroke and the elementary back stroke. Of course if you wanted to get anyplace you had to do the crawl.
I completed my mile swim at the Sky View High School pool. Our ward Scouts would rent the pool and we would go up there to work on our scout swimming requirements. It made for a long Young Men's as the pool was twenty minutes away from Hyrum. After being in Scouts a while, I had passed all of the basic requirements. So we moved on to harder things. There was a handful of us passing off the mile swim. We started as soon as we arrived. We only had the pool for an hour. I took it easy, using plenty of resting strokes and taking my time; But I was steady. Bit by bit I swam. The leaders encouraged me to go fast. There was no way I would finish before the hour. And in fact I didn't. I was a few minutes over. But I swam a mile. I received a patch to put on my swim suit.

About Me

We are the Wardles. I am Billy. We are the parents of 8, one in Heaven
(stillborn,) 6 birth and 1 adopted. Four are away from home, two
daughters married and two sons in the Logan area going to school. Tony,
our adopted son is 11 years younger than our youngest birth child, so
he is greatly spoiled. I have worked for the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, Utah State Social Services, part of the time working with the Ute Tribe, Uintah Basin Counseling and Santa Clara County Mental Health for the last 21 years. Active Mormon and I follow the prophet.